Startup.Network conducted the 144th Startup Battle in San Francisco on May 23rd.
At this time more than 30 VCs and Angel investors joined us.
We express special gratitude to Experts who came to the Battle to share their knowledge and constructive suggestions with current-day Entrepreneurs.
The Judges Panel included
- Alexander Soroka, CEO&Founder at Startup.Network;
- Vasily Nikolaev, Venture Partner at Network.VC; Partner at Quantum Wave Fund;
- Artem Tokariev, Partner at 408 Ventures, Angel Investor;
- Marisa Alma McGinnis, LP in Blumberg Capital Fund III and a Managing Director at Golden Seeds;
- Robert Neivert, Venture Partner at 500 Startups running the blockchain program;
- Ben Bartlett, Partner at Tackett Bartlett LLP | Berkeley City Councilmember and Fmr. Vice Mayor;
- James Sowers, Angel Investor | Advisor at CHTA Ventures;
- Purvi Gandhi, Partner, CFO at Hone Capital;
- SC Moatti, Managing Partner at Mighty Capital;
- Marin Lesot, Tech Investment Banking at GS Capital;
- Jordan Wahbeh, Managing Partner at Bay Angels | Partner at Andra Capital;
- Jeff Wallace, Co-Founder of Silicon Valley in Your Pocket; Founder of Global Kinetics; Founding Investor, Managing Partner and President at The Batchery;
- Chris Park, Principal at UL Ventures;
- Cigdem Toraman, StartersHub US and Startupbootcamp Scale San Francisco Managing Director;
- Ashish Bhatia, Angel Investor;
- Mitra Broomand-Huber, Associate at Autotech Ventures;
- Tina Choi, CEO & Co-Founder at Travonde | Angel Investor and Advisor at Astia.
The Startup Battle was started with Panel Discussion . Amazing Mark Hamade became the Moderator of the Panel Discussion at the 144th Startup Battle.
This time our Speakers answered to the questions of the following topic “How to structure your startup to get investors excited”. The Speakers observed the questions about key facts
what force investors to invest in startups as well as common errors what can grave startup. What is more, our Guests and Entrepreneurs had an opportunity to listen to a couple of advice and admonition from each of our Speakers.
Meet our skilled Speakers
- Marin Lesot, Tech Investment Banking at GS Capital;
- Jim Simmons, Managing Partner at Simmons Goodspeed Ventures;
- Vince Kohli, General Partner @ Dream Pitch Ventures | High Impact Super Angel Investor | Silicon Valley Exponential Mentor Maker;
- Prathamesh Prabhudesai, Entrepreneur In Residence at F50 | Venture Fellow at FundRx;
- Kaustav Chaudhuri, Founder at Pitch Global Network of Networks | Mentor at Alchemist Accelerator;
- Daniel Gomez, Investor at Fusion Fund;
- Ashish Bhatia, Angel Investor.
The second part of the Battle was dedicated to pitch competition. Ten pre-selected
Startups showed their promising projects to the wide audience of the venture community.
During the Startup Battle, Judges marked each startup.
According to the voting results, the winner of the Battle became Third Opinion AI / Third Opinion Care with an average score of 3.69 points. It’s AI-powered online monitoring for bedridden patients.
The second place was Docsie.io with 3.57 points. It’s smart product documentation and user guides.
The third place with 3.44 points took StockVUE, IoT Solution for Inventory Management.
The fourth place was Cher. Cher helps people connect to co-own homes.
The fifth place belonged to the startup that enables enterprises to be data-driven - Lyftron The sixth place was ReSpeecher.
The seventh place was Forcz Inc
The eighth place belonged to MSSG.ME
The ninth was Aligner.
The tenth place was MESO.
Learn more about presented startups at
https://battle.startup.network/events/390678/#startups
Startup.Network is grateful to Investors, Experts, Entrepreneurs and Guests who attended the 144th Startup Battle in San Francisco.
Thanks 500 Startups for supporting Startup Battle.
Keep your eye on our events. The next 145th Startup Battle will be in Los Angeles on
May 30th.
Follow our announcements on the Startup Battle list!
Feel free to invest in promising startups with Startup.Network!
See you at Startup Battles!
